Passage 2

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In plain words

The seed we plant in the earth grows into a tree and yields fruit. In each fruit a seed lies hidden. In the same way, divinity lies hidden in all beings in the form of a seed. But man today is tormented by the doubt whether there is any such thing as divinity at all. This is a very foolish doubt!

Scientists did research for many years to recognise the truth that the whole world is made of atoms. But the boy Prahlāda recognised this truth many thousands of years ago and proclaimed it: ‘Have no doubt that He is in this one and not in that; the Bearer of the discus is present everywhere...’ There is no room at all for the doubt whether God exists or not. When a person is in plain sight before your eyes, can you say that person is not there? In just the same way, when divinity is shining in every object and every being in this world, who can say that God is here and not there? Before you say that such-and-such a person is not here, you must surely know who that person is! When you do not know who God is, what right have you to say that God does not exist? There is nothing in this world without divinity. In whatever being you look, divinity is shining. Names and forms may differ, but the God in all is one. You must recognise this truth and try to experience divinity. God has no particular form. Ānanda itself is the form of God.

Eternal Ānanda, giver of the highest happiness, the very form of Jñāna alone, beyond the pairs of opposites, like the sky, the goal that ‘Thou art That’ and such sayings point to, one, eternal, stainless, unmoving, the onlooker of every mind, beyond all feeling, free of the three guṇas....

If you say God is, He is; if you say He is not, He is not

Man is endowed with great power. The power that is in man is in no one else.